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Life, Animated(Movie, 2016)

1h 31min | Genre: Documentary
Life, AnimatedRating: 3.8/5 (with 6363 votes)
Life, Animated is a 2016 American documentary by director Roger Ross Williams. It is co-produced by Williams with Julie Goldman, Carolyn Hepburn and Christopher Clements. Life, Animated is based on journalist Ron Suskind's 2014 book Life, Animated: A Story of Sidekicks, Heroes, and Autism, which tells the story of his son, Owen Suskind, who struggled with autism and learned how to communicate with the outside world through his love of Disney films. Upon its release, the film received generally positive reviews from critics and won numerous awards including the Sundance Film Festival award for Best Direction and the Special Achievement Annie Award. It was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film category at the 89th Academy Awards, but lost to O.J.: Made in America. ()
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Awards & Nominations for Life, Animated

Sundance U.S. Directing Award: Documentary Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film

About Life, Animated

At three years old, a chatty, energetic little boy named Owen Suskind ceased to speak, disappearing into autism with apparently no way out. Almost four years passed and the only stimuli that engaged Owen were Disney films. Then one day, his father donned a puppet—Iago, the wisecracking parrot from Aladdin—and asked “what’s it like to be you?” And poof! Owen replied, with dialogue from the movie. Life, Animated tells the remarkable story of how Owen found in Disney animation a pathway to language and a framework for making sense of the world.

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Life, Animated Official Trailer 1 (2016)(Trailer, 2:28)

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Additional Information

Official websites:
www.lifeanimateddoc.com
Production country: United States of America (USA)
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: English (EN)
Translated into 14 languages: Bulgarian (BG), Czech (CS), Danish (DA), German (DE), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Italian (IT), Korean (KO), Dutch (NL), Polish (PL), Swedish (SV), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date US: 04/29/2016 (World premiere: 03/03/2016)
Screenwriter: Ron Suskind
Director of Photography: Thomas Bergmann
Keywords: autism

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